Shortwave Authors
Follow Shortwave's horror and sci-fi authors here! Authors appearing here may have standalone book titles, magazine stories, anthology stories, or other writing published by us.
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@cybergodwrites.bsky.social
Servant to the Cyber Gods | Bram Stoker Award Nominated Prose Poet | Author of Oblivion in Flux | Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums | anOther Mythology https://linktr.ee/cybergodwrites
@spinetinglers.bsky.social
Horror author (Nikki R. Leigh), comic book letterer (Nikki Powers), pretty gay. 🎃🏳️🌈 Horror books and movies. AKA @spinetinglers on IG. she/her https://linktr.ee/spinetinglershorror?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=01cd9b40-1664-4d40-a408-8f4f5
@tjoneswriter.bsky.social
Author: NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES MIDAS HEAVY OCEANS BURN THE PLANS TURN UP THE SUN ALMOST RUTH THE DARK SIDE OF THE ROOM CRITERIUM www.tylerjones.net
@raewilde.bsky.social
Author of Merciless Waters, I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men, I Can Fix Her, & others Rep Carleen Geisler at Arthouse Literary IG & TT @_rae_wilde
@taylorlgrothe.bsky.social
Horror(omantasy) author 👻 HOLLOW (Peachtree Teen, Sept 30, 2025), THESE DREAMING SPIRES (Titan, Sept 2, 2025), OAAS (Peachtree Teen, Fall '26) | MFA ‘24 | BLM | 🍉 | Rep: Victoria Marini at High Line Literary Collective
@maeisafraid.bsky.social
Ed. British Fantasy Award nominee THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS | Brave New Weird Award-winner | I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU out now! | Lupus | Cat mom | maemurray.com
@lyzmancini.bsky.social
Writer of the “good for her” genre Repped by Victoria Marini, Highline Literary Was once described as “a vintage abandoned gas station.” ❤️🔥
@pedroiniguez.bsky.social
Bram Stoker & Elgin Award-nominated SF/H writer. Rhysling Finalist, Pushcart Nominee. FEVER DREAMS OF A PARASITE (Out Now!) ECHOES AND EMBERS (Stars and Sabers Publishing, 07/15/2025) THE FIB (Gloo Books, 10/07/25) Find me at: www.pedroiniguez.com
@jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social
Author man. Film producer. Polar bear. DEAD LETTERS / BURY ME COLD & MORE LAST WORDS. Words in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Weird Horror, Tales to Terrify, and Best Horror Vol 15.
@bevvincent.bsky.social
Author of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life & Influences, The Road to the Dark Tower. Co-editor of Flight or Fright. Stoker/Edgar nominee.
@christopherhawkins.bsky.social
Writer. Factotum. Master of tsundoku. HWA Chicagoland chapter co-chair. Award-winning author of Suburban Monsters and Downpour. https://www.christopher-hawkins.com
@chelseapumpkins.bsky.social
Author, editor, podcast host. https://linktr.ee/chelseapumpkins
@worncassettes.bsky.social
Horror writer. Tape hiss, TV static, and modem handshake sounds are my jam. worncassettes.com
@horrorsong.blog
Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Website: horrorsong.blog The Wingspan of Severed Hands Invaginies https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/joe-koch-invaginies-preorder The Couvade Convulsive The Shipwreck of the Cerberus
@ericraglin1992.bsky.social
Horror/Weird fiction writer of Nightmare Yearnings, Extinction Hymns, & Lonesome Pyres (currently out of print). Owner of Cursed Morsels Press. Anti-capitalist and anti-fascist. He/Him Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
@mynachang.bsky.social
📖 THE POTENTIAL OF RADIO AND RAIN ✏️ Locus Rec List, Rhysling HM, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction 💫 MicroVerse Recommended Reading ⚡Electric Sheep SFWA, HWA, SFPA https://mynachang.com
@thesuiway.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🇺🇦 | Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, Pushcart nominee | rep: Shannon Lechon | SFWA | THE DRAGONFLY GAMBIT(NOW OUT)| THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA (Erewhon Books, 2026) | https://linktr.ee/thesuiway |
@kathleenpalm.bsky.social
MG horror writer. General weirdo. Find me running in the haunted cornfields. MG horror Nowhere Series coming from Undertaker Books 2025-2026. MG horror Nightmare Garden coming from Watertower Hill Publishing 2026. HWA Chicago. Creepy is fun.
@sarahfannon.bsky.social
Horror and speculative fiction writer in DC ||💙💖💜|| she/her || working on my novel || Website: https://www.sarahfannon.com
@jawmccarthy.bsky.social
2x Bram Stoker & 2x Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Author of SLEEP ALONE and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Stories: Best Horror of the Year Vol 13, PseudoPod, Vastarien, Split Scream 3, more. Cat & lipstick enthusiast. She/Jen. Rep: Lane Heymont. jawmccarthy.com
@jonathanmaberry.bsky.social
NY Times bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, editor & comic book writer for IDW, Dark Horse,Marvel. Creator of V-Wars (Netflix). Editor of Weird Tales.
@rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social
Horror author, EIC of Undertaker Books. IN MEMORY OF EXOSKELETONS, CREEP THIS WAY, SELF-MADE MONSTERS, DOWN IN THE DARK DEEP WHERE THE PUDDLERS DWELL, SIX O'CLOCK HOUSE & OTHER STRANGE TALES. rebeccacuthbert.com.
@wendingus.bsky.social
Horror/Dark Fantasy author 📖 Midnight attic crawler 💀 God won't let me die. "A Lonely Broadcast: Book Two" out now! linktr.ee/wendingus
@beedeebrave.bsky.social
I'm Bridget. I write weird funny horror and some creepy stuff for ttrpgs and video games. I also have a law degree and a bunch o' cats. Reasonably friendly. Gender agnostic. Probably napping. @beedeebrave everywhere
@sabradley.bsky.social
This is the Bluesky home of author/podcaster/lecturer/"horrorvangelist" S.A. Bradley. Author of "Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy," creator of "Hellbent for Horror," and lecture "Monsters Are Metaphors." hellbentforhorror.com
@zacharyashford.bsky.social
Husband. Horror author. Educator. HWA member. TV/Film Rep: Alec Frankel at IAG. Check out my debut novel Polyphemus here: https://lnkj.in/p/polyphemus. Book me to speak at your school or writing event here: https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/zach
@jamessabata.com
Author, Screenwriter, Podcaster, Tarantula lover http://www.jamessabata.com http://linktr.ee/JamesSabata
@vincentvenacava.bsky.social
@richardthomas.bsky.social
Writer, editor, teacher, publisher. Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Thriller Award finalist. Best Horror 11 & 17. he/him
@erricknunnally.bsky.social
Graphic designer, author, artist, and some other shit probably.
@ronaldkelly.bsky.social
Southern-Fried Horror Author. Zebra Books 1990-1996. Splatterpunk Award Winner. Author of Fear, Undertaker's Moon, Blood Kin, The Essential Sick Stuff, & Southern Fried & Horrified. Devoted husband, dad, and man of faith. He/Him
@briankeene.bsky.social
Bestselling, award-winning writer of horror, fantasy, nonfiction, & comic books. Podcaster. Showrunner. Film Producer. Father. Husband. Veteran. Owns @vortexbooksncomics.bsky.social. Board of Directors for @scaresthatcare.bsky.social.
@larryblamire.bsky.social
Filmmaker, artist, writer and so much more. LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA, DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, STEAM WARS, THE ADVENTURES OF BIG DAN FRATER.
@nytebird45.bsky.social
Writer of weird stuff, lover of Light! #BLM #blacksky She/Her - www.LindaAddisonWriter.com (author photo by Courtney Hartley)
@srinivassimo.bsky.social
he/they 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Spec fic + all things weird & queer. Stories in Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Dark Matter Ink, khoreo & more. Codexian. SWFA. http://srinivassimo.com
@ayidashonibar.bsky.social
writer of dark & wistful speculative fiction words in SILK & SINEW (Bad Hand Books), WILTED PAGES (Shortwave Publishing), NIGHT OF THE LIVING QUEERS (Wednesday Books), NATURE FUTURES, TRANSMOGRIFY! (Harper Teen), & more 🌈 she/they ayidashonibar.com
@mike-cant-reed.bsky.social
Teaching, writing, reading, dyslexia, and all things speculative fiction. Codex Writer. HWA associate. Reading for Factor Four Magazine.
@marisca.bsky.social
makes things 🏳️🌈 | RIVERS (Android Press, Apr '23) | EVERY DARK CLOUD (@ghostorchidpress.com Mar '25) | Stonecoast MFA '21 | HWA & SFWA 🐉 | https://linktr.ee/mariscarp
@sillysyntax.bsky.social
Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder "SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin suzanpalumbo.carrd.co
@premeemohamed.com
Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Hugo, BSFA, BFA, Locus, Crawford award finalist. 📚🪲 Rep: Michael Curry. www.premeemohamed.com
@joannapary.bsky.social
Author of IT WILL JUST BE US (2020) and WHEN THE NIGHT BELLS RING (2022). AKA Joanna Parypinski. Co-chair of HWA LA chapter. https://jo-kaplan.com/
@rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social
Award winning, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards nominated writer/professor/editor. She/Her. Literary representation: Natasha Mihell, at The Rights Factory
@cyrusafisher.bsky.social
horror writer, creepy crafter, generally bad at social media. find my work in Pseudopod, Intersteller Flight Press, The Book of Queer Saints, and more. they/any. https://cyrusameliafisher.com/
@brianevenson.bsky.social
Short story writer, novelist, television writer. Married to the excellent Kristen Tracy.
@amberwrites88.bsky.social
UK #1 bestselling YA author | OF JADE AND DRAGONS (Out Now, Penguin Teen) | Next up: THE BLOOD PHOENIX (17 Jun '25) | Rep: Laura Crockett | 🇸🇬
@octavia-cade.bsky.social
New Zealand writer, PhD science communication! Seven time SJV winner. Author of The Stone Wētā, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, and You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. Robert Burns Fellow for 2025 at Otago University.
@alexwoodroe.com
Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, way too into concept albums, food, botany, and creepy movies. Optimistic nihilist. Wrote🌲WHISPERWOOD https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe
@saratantlinger.bsky.social
5x Bram Stoker Award nominee; award-winning author of The Devil’s Dreamland. Cats & coffee 🖤
@teagansturmer.bsky.social
writer of romance, the macabre, and angry girls | words in @shortwavebooks | Rep'd @kissedbyink | librarian | chronically ill and anxious | she/her
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social
Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner Aug 12: A GAME IN YELLOW Sept 16: TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS she/her; rep: Lane Heymont haileypiper.com
@uteorgassa.bsky.social
Author, playwright, strange human being. https://www.uteorgassa.com/ Member of https://www.penandpier.com
@ericlarocca.bsky.social
(He/They) 3x Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning Author | AT DARK, I BECOME LOATHSOME OUT NOW | Lit Rep: Priya Doraswamy Official website: ericlarocca.com Profile picture by Jessica Hayworth
@nkolakowski.bsky.social
Author of "Where the Bones Lie” (Datura, March 2025) and other grim delights. HWA, MWA. Cats, snark, crime, horror. https://linktr.ee/nickkolakowski
@gabino.bsky.social
Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD/New York Times horror columnist. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me! https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
@robwhart.bsky.social
USA TODAY bestselling author of books like ASSASSINS ANONYMOUS, THE PARADOX HOTEL, and THE WAREHOUSE. https://linktr.ee/robwhart
@comptonwrites.bsky.social
Horror author: The Spite House & Devils Kill Devils Podcaster: Healthy Fears. /. Behind Your Face There is a Place
@manylittlewords.bsky.social
Bram Stoker & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator and podcaster from Bristol, UK. Books: ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025 ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025 FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026 HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026 Also NoSleep Podcast.
@adamcesare.bsky.social
Horror Enthusiast. Bram Stoker Award-winning author. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, VIDEO NIGHT, DEAD MALL, and more. Please buy a book. https://linktr.ee/adamcesare
@kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social
Irish guy stranded in Ohio. Bram Stoker Award-winning writer of books, graphic novels, and screenplays. Speaker of Gaelic; baker of cakes. Total eejit. www.kealanpatrickburke.com
@alexebenstein.bsky.social
Michigander. Horror writer. Three novellas, CURSE CORVUS, MELON HEAD MAYHEM (Shortwave Publishing), and REANIMATED REX out now. he/him alexebenstein.com
@christinogle.bsky.social
Bram Stoker Winning first novel, BEULAH. Work in Apex, Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, 3LBE, etc. Three Collections from Flame Tree Press. Rep: Lane Heymont. Working on a new novel! https://linktr.ee/christinogle
@aijiang.bsky.social
🇨🇳🇨🇦 || she/her || Changle -> Toronto ||Ignyte, Bram Stoker, Nebula Winner || Hugo, Astounding, Locus nominee || Odyssey ‘23 || BA,MSc || rep: UTA & The Tobias Literary Agency || A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (Titan Books ‘25) https://aijiang.carrd.co/
@markrainey.bsky.social
Author/editor of scary fiction, graphic artist, geocacher, occasional musician & actor, perpetual old fart
@heyitschloespencer.bsky.social
Filmmaker & FEVERrpg dev. HAUNTING MELODY OUT OCT 1st. She/her. Bi🌈 https://linktr.ee/chloespencer
@emmaemurray.bsky.social
Award-winning horror writer. She/her. 🩷💜💙 Rep: literaryclara.bsky.social 🐌Crushing Snails 😈When the Devil 💧The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions 🩸Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day (8/26/25) Website: EmmaEMurray.com
@claymcleod.bsky.social
Books. Comic books. YA/middlegrade books. Film/TV. Podcasts. You can visit me at www.claymcleodchapman.com
@davidniallwilson.com
Author, Publisher, some awards, USA Today bestseller. Wrangler of 12 cats & chinchilla, ex-Prez HWA, trivia not fact checked. Way left. Husband & father, I'm Crossroad Press! #startrek #stargate #WoD https://www.davidniallwilson.com
@lyndseycroal.bsky.social
Scottish SFFH Author, words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | BFA Finalist | Latest book: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave | Next: DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Lit Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard, Untitled Ent. https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
@tanyapell.bsky.social
📚author💀HWA😴 narcolepsy 🩷💜💙she/her. 👀 (Gallery, ‘26) HER WICKED ROOTS (Gallery, ‘25) CICADA (Shortwave, ‘24) Rep’d by Marcy Posner @ Folio & Folio Jr. Film rep Rich Green
@natcassidy.bsky.social
TV actor. Musician. Horror writer (MARY: AN AWAKENING OF TERROR; NESTLINGS; REST STOP). Next up: WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME, April 22, 2025, Tor Nightfire. (he/him)
@alandistro.bsky.social
Editor of OBSOLESCENCE. Award-winning author of FACE THE NIGHT. Founder of small press Shortwave Publishing. HWA Active Member. SFWA Full Member.
@brianmcwriter.bsky.social
WGA Screenwriter. HWA Author. 🎞️⛓️ CURSE OF THE REAPER 🌲🔨 CANDY CAIN KILLS 🙏🪓 CANDY CAIN KILLS AGAIN 🧘🏻♀️🩸 BREATHE IN, BLEED OUT (9/2/25)
@scottjmoses.bsky.social
Writes rain-drenched horror that isn’t, but is, sort of. Peddler of existential hope. scottjmoses.com
@patrickbarb.bsky.social
Writer/Editor/Awesome (he/him); patrickbarb.com Rep: Pam Gruber at High Line Literary Collective
@toddkeisling.com
Horror writer & designer. Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of DEVIL’S CREEK, SCANLINES, & more. Rep: Becky LeJeune | Bond Literary Agency. He/him. http://linktr.ee/tkeisling
@pfracassi.bsky.social
Author w/ Nightfire, Orbit, Clash, Lethe… • THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE • THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL • NO ONE IS SAFE! • BOYS IN THE VALLEY • GOTHIC • A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS www.pfracassi.com/books (Header art by Chris Nurse)
@cshumble.bsky.social
Award-winning author of Amid the Vastness of All Else western saga and The Black Wells Series. Consulting Storyteller. Literary Rep: Becky LeJeune of Bond Literary Agency
@annieneugebauer.bsky.social
2x Bram Stoker Award® finalist. Author, poet. Equal parts macabre & squee. Lit: Alec Shane, Writers House. Film/TV: Sean Berard, Untitled Entertainment. THE EXTRA, 9/9/25 YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED THE OTHER THE SPARE https://annieneugebauer.com/
@gemmafiles.bsky.social
a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. coming soon: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
@laurelhightower.bsky.social
Horror loving mom. Author of that mothman book, BELOW. Also WHISPERS IN THE DARK, CROSSROADS, EVERY WOMAN KNOWS THIS, SILENT KEY, SPIRIT COVEN, and THE DAY OF THE DOOR
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
We're a small press publishing genre fiction. We offer a selection of original books, zines, and magazine articles. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member). Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/